road2kros

congratulations

Congratulations and thanks for sharing your experience.

congratulations.

Congratulations.

Congratulations..... and thanks for sharing.

CONGRATULATIONS...

Got my approval letter in the mail today!FInally,after joining the thread with March transfers.

The letter came from the VSC, with decision date 5/20.

There are no changes online, it still shows the transfer message.

Any fellow March transfers, don't loose hope!

CONGRATULATIONS....

Last year i have filed for a Declaration of Pressumptive Death and it was a success. The court order contains this.

She likewise said that she filed this petition for the purpose of contracting another marriage in the future considering that she is still young and still dreaming of having a family.

WHEREFORE, in view of foregoing and pursuent to the last paragraph of Article 41 of the Family code of the Philippines, a DECREE is hereby issued declaring RODOLFO VALDEZ, pressumed dead for the purpose of enabling petitioner to contract a subsiquent marriage. This is without prejudice to provisions of article 42 and 43 of the Family Code of the Philippines.

I Got the Annotated Mariage contract authenticated by the DFA and Norwegian embassy in the philippines. I resently apply for a marriage here in Norway but they did not approve the annotated MC. They requested that i will provide a Certificate of Legal capacity to Marry or a prove that i am single again and is allowed to marry again.The Philippine embassy here and the NSO cannot issue a CENOMAR because i am merried before. That even if i will get a CENOMAR (Certificate of No Marriage) i will be indicated there that i am married and that the annotated marriage contract will be the prove that my marriage is now null and void. As well as they are asking for a death cert of my ex-husband, but i can never provide that because he was pressume dead and not dead. Now i only have a very short time to get the approval to get married. What will i do about this.

Thank you so much and God bless you.

With love and prayers,

reyjilin

Are you a Filipino? If you are then, this is difficult to do as Philippine Law is conservative. And there is no way you can do in just a short time. I don't know how and what to tell you. Sorry but, you definitely need a lawyer and I guess you have to wait and postpone your plan of getting married.

Yes I am a filipino and I understand what you mean as well as thank you for your reply. The case were done in a right way but it's not recognised here. Now we will be going back to the philippines to get married. Will they question this again when i apply for an entry visa here to be reunited with then husband? I am going home first by July & i will be changing my passport name as well back to single name or will be my then husband surname. Thank you and God bless you.

with regards,

reyjilin

Your case is very compllicated. However, you are right ... best thing to do is to go home to PI and process your papers from there, because the US immigration in PI will honor your annotated MC and a copy of your presumptive death of your ex-husband. If you want to change your passport into single you can. Just be esure of what you are going to tell to the US immigration in PI because your record may be in the system. I hope this helps.

I got a call from our Congresswoman's immigration liason this morning saying that my husbands Green Card was approved. When we got home the approval notice was in the mailbox. YAY!!!!

Approved 5/7/2009.

So after 16 months of waiting we finally don't have to be jerked around by USCIS anymore!!

That is great!!!! Congratulations....

Last year i have filed for a Declaration of Pressumptive Death and it was a success. The court order contains this.

She likewise said that she filed this petition for the purpose of contracting another marriage in the future considering that she is still young and still dreaming of having a family.

WHEREFORE, in view of foregoing and pursuent to the last paragraph of Article 41 of the Family code of the Philippines, a DECREE is hereby issued declaring RODOLFO VALDEZ, pressumed dead for the purpose of enabling petitioner to contract a subsiquent marriage. This is without prejudice to provisions of article 42 and 43 of the Family Code of the Philippines.

I Got the Annotated Mariage contract authenticated by the DFA and Norwegian embassy in the philippines. I resently apply for a marriage here in Norway but they did not approve the annotated MC. They requested that i will provide a Certificate of Legal capacity to Marry or a prove that i am single again and is allowed to marry again.The Philippine embassy here and the NSO cannot issue a CENOMAR because i am merried before. That even if i will get a CENOMAR (Certificate of No Marriage) i will be indicated there that i am married and that the annotated marriage contract will be the prove that my marriage is now null and void. As well as they are asking for a death cert of my ex-husband, but i can never provide that because he was pressume dead and not dead. Now i only have a very short time to get the approval to get married. What will i do about this.

Thank you so much and God bless you.

With love and prayers,

reyjilin

Are you a Filipino? If you are then, this is difficult to do as Philippine Law is conservative. And there is no way you can do in just a short time. I don't know how and what to tell you. Sorry but, you definitely need a lawyer and I guess you have to wait and postpone your plan of getting married.

Congratulations

SENKA, thanks, however my passport expired ages ago and I can't renew it quickly either (Russian govt is even slower than USCIS). Screwed.

I pray that ayou receivec your green card soon.

Also, for those who received the stamp, did they keep and destroy the greencard? (I mean, it's expired so it's useless, but it felt weird seeing it cut up after working so hard to receive it!)

They did not ask for my green card when I had my infopass. They just asked for my passport and stamped it. So I have my old green card for me to keep.

My category is now IR1. In my conditional green card is CR2. Does the category mean something?

CR means you're a CONDITIONAL RESIDENT.

....and what does IR1 mean?

IR means you're not a conditional resident

i.e your card is fine, and Italian_in_NYC's card is screwed up.

Tnanks notscenenough

My category is now IR1. In my conditional green card is CR2. Does the category mean something?

CR means you're a CONDITIONAL RESIDENT.

....and what does IR1 mean?

Here is my timeline

September 2007 - jointly filed I-751 sent to VSC

November 2007 - fingerprints

August 2008 - RFE

November 2008 - got stamp in the passport

March 2009 - divorce is final

Apr 6, 2009 - divorce waiver I-751 sent to VSC

Apr 16, 2009 - interview for jointly filed I-751. The IO tells me that the rules has recently changed, now if someone files jointly but get divorce finalized before his/her I-751 interview, an IO may amend his/her case at the time of the interview and approve it. He also tells me I will receive a decision letter by mail.

Apr 16, 2009 - fingerprints

Apr 22, 2009 - divorce waiver I-751 returned by VSC because I forgot to sign the check.

Apr 30, 2009 - decision letter received. It says:

"Conditions removed as of: 4/23/2009.

Your request for the removal of the conditional basis of your permanent resident status has been approved."

Congratulations. That was very stressful, good thing you handled it. Now, enjoy and relax.

Got my GC today as well.

My category remained CR6. Isn't it supposed to be IR6 now?

What category do you have?

My category is now IR1. In my conditional green card is CR2. Does the category mean something?

I got home from work today and my green card was here. I thought it was my approval notice as it was said in the email from Cris that my approval notice was sent. I am thinking my green card will be later but then to my surprise ,it was my green card. I got so excited but where is my approval notice? I am woried I may need this on my application for my N-400. Do I?

So here is everything we sent... hope it is enough

Contents of Documents:

Document 1 Auto insurance 2006-2009, Joint Title and Registration, and Driver’s Licenses

Document 2 Tax Transcripts from local IRS office 2005-2008, W2 Wage information for Dai and Tiffany 2005-2008, 2008 Tax Information/Corresponding Refund Bank statement

Document 3 2007 Tax Information/Corresponding Refund Bank statement

Document 4 2006 Tax Information/Corresponding Refund Bank statement

Document 5 Joint Bank Account information opened 2009

Document 6 Bank statements showing David’s wages deposited into Tiffany’s account, Authorization for Direct Deposit into Tiffany’s account for Dai

Document 7 Pay statements from 2005 reflecting deposit into same account

Document 8 Life, Health, Dental showing each other as beneficiary and Tiffany’s Retirement account reflecting Dai as beneficiary

Document 9 Copy of letter from current Landlord

Document 10 September 2004-September 2005 Lease

Document 11 January 2006- December 2006 Lease

Document 12 January 2007 – December 2007 Lease

Document 13 Adoption papers for our cats

Document 14 TV Rental Agreement

Document 15 Renters insurance information showing Tiffany and David are covered during our time at our previous address and current address

Document 16 Verizon bills in Dai's name and Electric bills in Tiffany’s showing same address from 2008-2009

We didnt have a lot of info from the first part of our marriage 2004-2007 becauase all of those bank accounts have long since closed, same with utilities from our prior address... Let me know what you think.

Totaled all the documents came to over 100 pages.

Witih these kind of reply to your RFE? You are fine.

The reason in the letter was that our petition Did not span the entire period of our marriage in sufficient detail. When reading the documents we sent them i.e. Travel documents of when we went to visit his family together (why would I take a vacation with someone I don't have a relationship with?!?!) Copy of our Auto Insurance with him listed as a named insured (he had just recently gotten his license in 2006) I sent copies of my 2007 policies, Affadvaits from my family members certifing we have an ongoing loving relationship, my pay stub claiming my status as single (only so we can have the max taxes taken out when we file for our refunds, which we included copies of our tax returns) and an old lease. The main problem we will most likely come across is we cannot provide proof except leases from we first got married in 2004. We never had joint bank account until just recently, the same with utilities they have always been in my name....

Send them the recent documents. Also send a history of your documents form the time your husband/wife was here. Make everything in detail for them to avoid asking the question WHY? Goodluck

Hello,

Once again thank you to all of you have been posting on this forum - it has been a tremendous help! I just got an email with the following message from CRIS:

"Application Type: CRI89 , PETITION TO REMOVE CONDITIONS OF PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS RECEIVED

Current Status: Card production ordered.

On April 27, 2009, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you"

Anyone out there who can tell me what this means in very basic black and white english ?

ANYWAYS.... CONGRATULATIONS

Congrats!!! Next time don't post it with EAC#!!!!!

Why not? I did not post my real number anyways.....

Thanks to all of you. I pray that everyone who are still waiting... may their wait be soon over! I know how it feels.

Yeheeeey!!!!! I got 2 emails from CRIS today .....I am so happy, I can now relax a bit and think about getting a citizenship

DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS E-MAIL ***

The last processing action taken on your case

Receipt Number: EAC1234567890

Application Type: CRI89 , PETITION TO REMOVE CONDITIONS OF PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS RECEIVED

Current Status: Card production ordered.

On April 23, 2009, we ordered production of your new card. Please allow 30 days for your card to be mailed to you. If we need something from you we will contact you. If you move before you receive the card, call customer service. You can also receive automatic e-mail updates as we process your case. Just follow the link below to register.

If you have questions or concerns about your application or the case status results listed above, or if you have not received a decision from USCIS within the current processing time listed*, please contact USCIS Customer Service at (800) 375-5283.

*Current processing times can be found on the USCIS website at www.uscis.gov under Case Status and Processing Dates.

*** Please do not respond to this e-mail message.

Hello guys... we submitted our application to remove conditional status back in December 2007 but have not received a decision - it's been 16 months.

We went to USCIS Newark to get the stamp on the passport to prove legal status. We got that... but no one there could tell us what is going on.

In January 2009, we received a fingerprint request for our son - 12 months after submission of application. Our son is only 5 years old so I don't think they'd need to do FBI background check on him. I think the delay was because they did not have our son's fingerprint. I hope it won't take another 12 months from January 2009.

Anyway, the officer there told us that my wife can apply for citizenship even if she doesn't have her permanent green card. The only problem with this is that it will further delay the green card process. Of course, if she gets the citizenship then they'll save money on not having to produce her green card, so they want the green card to wait for citizenship result.

Should I contact my senator? How do you do this?

Thank you!

DNALERI

I am on the same boat with you, until now we are still waiting. I called USCIS but the woman said that there is no 60 days yet since USCIS received our RFE. I don't understand